Book Review
Understanding and Preventing Noncontact ACL Injuries

Athletic Training & Sports Health Care  Vol. 2   No. 1   January/February 2010

By Lauren C. Kramer, PhD, ATC

EXCERPT

Understanding and Preventing Noncontact ACL Injuries is a compilation of the current evidence-based medicine regarding the prevention of noncontact anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries. The incidence of ACL injuries in young, female athletes has risen during the past few decades with the increasing participation of female athletes in organized sports. Although the incidence of ACL injuries in the general population is largely unknown, it is now estimated that 1 of 100 high school female athletes will experience this physical and emotionally disabling injury. In addition, it is estimated that surgical reconstruction of an ACL-injured knee may cost more than $17,000 per procedure, bringing the overall cost to the United States to $1.5 billion per year. Anterior cruciate ligament injuries are a significant health problem comprehensively addressed in this text.

doi:10.3928/19425864-20101222-08